Wednesday, April 2, 2008

A Birthday List

Yesterday was my birthday. Gert is an April Fool. And an old April Fool at that.

I'm not all that big of a birthday person, but this year is turning out to be one long series of small celebrations and intriguing gifts (even if some of them don't know that they are, in fact, birthday gifts).

And now I'm going to list them. Because, well, it's my birthday and it's what I do:

Saturday, March 29

I discovered Target now sells reusable shopping bags AND I got this basket made from recycled paper.

Tuesday, April 1RentHead and her children sang "Happy Birthday"to me over the phone.I received a card with a picture of squirrels wearing dresses.I went to dinner and to watch the Lady Vols on television(and they won!).

Wednesday, April 2Today is one of RentHead's son's birthdays (left).Happy Birthday John!

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Thursday, April 3"THE OFFICE" RETURNS!!!!(I have a reminder written on my I 'heart' Jim magnetic note paper that RentHead gave me)

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Friday, April 4A movieopens, starring George Clooney AND John Krasinski.And no, I don't care if it sucks.

Saturday, April 5I get to spend six relatively uninterrupted hours on a plane reading.Or thinking.Or just counting my teeth.I don't know yet. I just know that I won't have to think about anything that needs to be done - or feel guilty about not doing any of the things that need to be done - at work or at home.

Sunday, April 6Get to do the same thing, but in the opposite direction.

Three Weeks from Now, April 23A friend is coming to visit (hi A!) and we are going to see that guy at this place. And it is going to be kickass.

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There might even be more at some point, but for all of my griping and complaining about the ills of the world and the overall notlookingforwardness that has been the lead-up to this birthday, I would say that it has turned out pretty OK.

Wish I'd Said That

“We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
– Barack Obama"Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
- Jane Austen

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
- Eleanor Roosevelt"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
-Catherine Aird

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." - Walt Whitman"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
— Anne Lamott"Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned.
Only after the last fish has been caught.
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Native Cree Saying